When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. Robert M. Pirsig More Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig More Quotes From Robert M. Pirsig You have to remember, that insane people can do some horrors themselves. I had committed no crime, though. I hadn't shot anybody. Yet. Robert M. Pirsig insanerememberpeople If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral. Robert M. Pirsig dharmamoralmatter A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable. Robert M. Pirsig dharmaunpredictablepersons I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing. Robert M. Pirsig gamesphilosophy The kid who is scared is the one the bullies go after. I used to get beat up pretty badly. Robert M. Pirsig bullyscaredkids The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. Robert M. Pirsig You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. Robert M. Pirsig You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something. Robert M. Pirsig To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Robert M. Pirsig livefuturemountainlife The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. Robert M. Pirsig motorcyclemindpeaceart We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do. Robert M. Pirsig needindependencereturnintegrity The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. Robert M. Pirsig workhearthandsworld The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain. Robert M. Pirsig topmountaindigitalgears There's no such thing as morality. Robert M. Pirsig thingmorality
